Infrastructure · Data Structures
Signal
Raw information emission
Definition
Mechanism
Emission of information into environment. No guaranteed recipient. Fire-and-forget.
Invariants
- Broadcast: Signal is available to any observer in the medium.
- Distinguishability: the emission is separable from the medium background by an observer. Relevance is the receiver's judgment, not the emitter's.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Used by
References
Society
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Mind
Estimating difficulty via simulation variance
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Freezing expectation to measure true surprise
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Passive attenuation of signal or force
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Distributed query for external resources
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Hardware-interrupt kill switch
Mismatch between predicted and observed state
Mind
Process demonstrates thesis
Structured signal container
Continuous observation of state over time
Physics
Irrelevant information
Mind
Breaking local optima
Society
Fluid, organic synchronization without rigid clock ticks.
Society
Implicit coordination via signal amplification
Mind
Learning via cheap, instructive failure
Attest to authorship or agreement
Mind
Active withholding of signal
Society
System health acting as an inhibitory emotion
Society
Protocol-level cognitive mode switching
Composes with
Error correction signal
Accepts
Liveness detection via periodic signals
Mind
Deriving semantic meaning from raw signal
Society
Verifying ontology alignment before data transfer
Reference
Data schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"signal_id",
"payload"
],
"properties": {
"signal_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Unique identifier for this emission"
},
"payload": {
"description": "The information being emitted (any valid JSON)"
},
"emitter_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Source of the signal (optional)"
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "When signal was emitted"
}
}
}